{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s494","title":18,"num":"\u00a7\u202f494.","heading":"Contractors\u2019 bonds, bids, and public records","text":"\u00a7\u202f494.\nContractors\u2019 bonds, bids, and public records\nWhoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any bond, bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States; or\nWhoever utters or publishes as true or possesses with intent to utter or publish as true, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or\nWhoever transmits to, or presents at any office or to any officer of the United States, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited\u2014\nShall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t18/s494.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s494","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f494."},{"t":"heading","text":"Contractors\u2019 bonds, bids, and public records"},{"t":"content","text":"\n","children":[{"t":"p","text":"Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any bond, bid, proposal, contract, guarantee, security, official bond, public record, affidavit, or other writing for the purpose of defrauding the United States; or","tail":"\n"},{"t":"p","text":"Whoever utters or publishes as true or possesses with intent to utter or publish as true, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited; or","tail":"\n"},{"t":"p","text":"Whoever transmits to, or presents at any office or to any officer of the United States, any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited\u2014","tail":"\n"},{"t":"p","text":"Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.","tail":"\n"}]},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}